THE DOCILE GERMAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1639, 18 November 1916, Page 2

THE DOCILE GERMAN.

TJIK (Vulval Empires am! I heir allies, says Dr. E. Dillon in a recent arliele, resemble all besieged populations in (he dangers Dial assail and the tale (hat threatens (hem, Doth have to tight against the onslaughts ol; the enemy, the failure of food and munition#!, and loss of morale. The last source of weakness would seem the least i'onnid- ‘> he in the ease of the Germans, meause of the docility that chara< .uises (hem, and their readiness r°n J f, ICVe wJ ‘a-tevor their leaders tJ,e,,l « c ‘ven though it he quite unreasonable. Thus they still hold that Germany is waging a war of W Ce ; that Great iiritain or U 1<l ’ 01 ’ hath, began this war nantonlv an ,i • , „ , now the'Ge, Wl ® kudly; i]mt . l,vuu , , , ULll H<in Government is animated hv ..r.a J Smierous love of peace, amt Won a . . ’ Entente P - to terms with the these WomT erS to ' xuorrow if on, - v guarantee C BlVe hor trustworthy gression- * future !|gshameles’i , tho allki * lluvo nations, w m, br ? ken all ll,L ' luws of hue the Germans have re-

spooled. thorn inoS . <: scrupulously. “The Entente,” wr^es the Kolnisohe Zeitung, Mm* ( '-V'hcaliy trampled under foot the law of nations on, <'Ountless occasions, a n( ] the neutrals have unhappily endured it all. Germany, on the eontrary, has scrupulously discharged all the duties of civilisation, as she has demonstrated hy her method of administering the occupied provinces,” This outrageous falsehood was written after the destruction of the Lusitania, the murder of Miss Cavell and Captain Fryatt, the mass massacre of the Letimhro, and the transportation of thousands of French people of both sexes inhabiting the Lille district into forced labour and captivity.